SCONES with BUTTER???? Ye gods!!!! The only argument with Scones plain of course, is Jam on first or Cream on first, my lot are divided some cream first some jam, which ever it ends up messy but sooo delicious. Obelixx Mum was a long time member of the WI, during the war she got us all fruit picking for Jam and bottling, the WI got extra sugar for that. Mum was quite a forceful character not many argued with her, she often had to judge the baking and jam sections of the local show, she did not pull her punches. We also went Rose Hip picking in the hedges around, wild roses abounded, they were collected by the local Co-op Jam factory and made into Rose Hip Syrup which along with Virol and Orange juice was the way we kids got our vitamin "C" we picked Bilberries by the bucket full up on the hills, I can still taste those pies. Mother taught Joan her way of making Victoria sponge, the extra home made jam and thick cream was the secret of the delicious taste, one layer of jam and no cream could be dry.
My other nag is muffins I put them up there with cup cakes, Californian Daughter last time over made Muffins on a daily basis. Muffins in my day were a bread like product home made hot from the oven and dripping with our own butter, maybe at times as a treat with a blob of jam, not this glaucus sweet cup cake imitation. Do not dare mention those supermarket so called muffins, I would not feed the pigs on them. Ladybird cook up a feast of cakes you would never buy another shop one.
I like savoury muffins best Frank but raspberry ones are pretty good too.
James martin famously had a Victoria sponge cake rejected by the WI judges because he put cream in it.
I can remember rose hip syrup and home made bilberry pies with fruit picked up on the Lancashire moors. So much more flavour than blueberries. Bought some plants in Cumbria a few years ago to try growing them here but they didn't like it.
Tried beer traps too but there are so many slugs here it was just too disgusting.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Fairygirl Daughter. I only ever had either Fruit or Cheese scones for years, all our female relatives were good cooks but scones were a filler and we had butter on them. Then I went to stay with Aunt Kitty in London I was sixteen and with two daughters the son she never had so I was spoilt rotten. She introduced me to Scones as made in Devon a large one you broke a section off plastered it in home made jam and then thick cream, I was converted on the spot. She showed me how to make them in my many return visits and I took them home to Mother. We still got fruit and cheese scones but the Sunday tea treat would be Kitty's scones. We tend to enjoy the food we had in our early years, Mother had been a cook at a large house, they were Austrian so she learned to cook many Italian dishes unheard of back then two other Aunts were cooks and Housekeepers to Lords so the standards were very high, though in these modern days of curries and highly spiced foods probably thought of as plain. I am not a curry man, Chinese leaves me hungry as I do not like boiled rice in any form apart from pudding, I know well out of touch with the young of today, so be it. I eat what I enjoy, leave the table feeling I could eat more, barely touch the sweet stuff and maintain my weight at the correct level for my age and keeping Diabetes at bay, in the words of the song "I do it my way" diets forget them they are just another fad.
Muddle-up, ate Scones many times on both sides of the Tamar, the warm scones would arrive with a pot of jam and a pot of cream usually with the words, "which ever way turns you on enjoy" and we did. The Jam on first was less messy I found the taste the same.
I love fish in all its forms but never ever got that Stargazy pie, weird was the word I would use though I did have some gorgeous fish pies in Cornwall and Devon.
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SCONES with BUTTER???? Ye gods!!!! The only argument with Scones plain of course, is Jam on first or Cream on first, my lot are divided some cream first some jam, which ever it ends up messy but sooo delicious. Obelixx Mum was a long time member of the WI, during the war she got us all fruit picking for Jam and bottling, the WI got extra sugar for that. Mum was quite a forceful character not many argued with her, she often had to judge the baking and jam sections of the local show, she did not pull her punches. We also went Rose Hip picking in the hedges around, wild roses abounded, they were collected by the local Co-op Jam factory and made into Rose Hip Syrup which along with Virol and Orange juice was the way we kids got our vitamin "C" we picked Bilberries by the bucket full up on the hills, I can still taste those pies. Mother taught Joan her way of making Victoria sponge, the extra home made jam and thick cream was the secret of the delicious taste, one layer of jam and no cream could be dry.
My other nag is muffins I put them up there with cup cakes, Californian Daughter last time over made Muffins on a daily basis. Muffins in my day were a bread like product home made hot from the oven and dripping with our own butter, maybe at times as a treat with a blob of jam, not this glaucus sweet cup cake imitation. Do not dare mention those supermarket so called muffins, I would not feed the pigs on them. Ladybird cook up a feast of cakes you would never buy another shop one.
Frank.
I like savoury muffins best Frank but raspberry ones are pretty good too.
James martin famously had a Victoria sponge cake rejected by the WI judges because he put cream in it.
I can remember rose hip syrup and home made bilberry pies with fruit picked up on the Lancashire moors. So much more flavour than blueberries. Bought some plants in Cumbria a few years ago to try growing them here but they didn't like it.
Tried beer traps too but there are so many slugs here it was just too disgusting.
I don't get cream on scones either. Far too sickly. I like just butter on mine, maybe a tiny little bit of jam.
Not that I dislike cream....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I wonder if I've enough things in the cupboard to make scones... diet starts tomorrow!
Fairygirl Daughter. I only ever had either Fruit or Cheese scones for years, all our female relatives were good cooks but scones were a filler and we had butter on them. Then I went to stay with Aunt Kitty in London I was sixteen and with two daughters the son she never had so I was spoilt rotten. She introduced me to Scones as made in Devon a large one you broke a section off plastered it in home made jam and then thick cream, I was converted on the spot. She showed me how to make them in my many return visits and I took them home to Mother. We still got fruit and cheese scones but the Sunday tea treat would be Kitty's scones. We tend to enjoy the food we had in our early years, Mother had been a cook at a large house, they were Austrian so she learned to cook many Italian dishes unheard of back then two other Aunts were cooks and Housekeepers to Lords so the standards were very high, though in these modern days of curries and highly spiced foods probably thought of as plain. I am not a curry man, Chinese leaves me hungry as I do not like boiled rice in any form apart from pudding, I know well out of touch with the young of today, so be it. I eat what I enjoy, leave the table feeling I could eat more, barely touch the sweet stuff and maintain my weight at the correct level for my age and keeping Diabetes at bay, in the words of the song "I do it my way" diets forget them they are just another fad.
Frank.
Muddle-up, ate Scones many times on both sides of the Tamar, the warm scones would arrive with a pot of jam and a pot of cream usually with the words, "which ever way turns you on enjoy" and we did. The Jam on first was less messy I found the taste the same.
I love fish in all its forms but never ever got that Stargazy pie, weird was the word I would use though I did have some gorgeous fish pies in Cornwall and Devon.
Frank.
When you see those TV gardeners with their fine tilth, doesn't it make you want to thpit thtones and lumpth of clay?
........ and thulk for ages. The fact that it is weed free too is just rubbing thalt in the wounds!